Category Archives: Euthanasia

By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. “Gosport” refers to the scandal

By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. “Gosport” refers to the scandal

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director – Euthanasia Prevention Coalition In March CTV News reported that Roger Foley, who lives with cerebellar ataxia, a degenerative neurological condition, has launched a lawsuit naming the London Health Sciences Centre and

By Michael Cook The UK’s Supreme Court has ruled that court orders are not necessarily needed before withdrawing hydration and nutrition from a comatose patient. If doctors and the patient’s family agree that on-going treatment is not in

By Wesley J. Smith I have written here before about Roger Foley, a disabled Canadian man who claims he has been denied proper medical treatment and independent living services, but has been offered euthanasia. Apparently, he has

By Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director – Euthanasia Prevention Coalition I was contacted by a woman who wanted to know how her nephew was approved for, and died by euthanasia (Medical Assistance in Dying–MAiD). She explained that her

By Wesley J. Smith Canadian doctors and nurse practitioners have reported that they have killed almost 4,000 (3,714) patients since euthanasia was legalized in Quebec in December 2015 — after which it was legalized throughout the country

By Dr. Peter Saunders Editor’s note. Dr. Saunders is a former general surgeon and CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organization with 4,500 UK doctors and 1,000 medical students as members. Should doctors be able to

Overall number of cases of euthanasia rose in 2017 by 13% By Michael Cook Three minors have been euthanised in Belgium since euthanasia for children was legalised in 2014. According to the latest report from the government agency which

When the splash of assisted-suicide and euthanasia blinds us to their far-reaching ripples By Margaret Somerville Two senior physicians who have championed the legalization of euthanasia in their jurisdictions, Dr. Boudewijn Chabot in the Netherlands and Dr.

As a nine year old child is euthanised in Belgium​ By SPUC—the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children A Dutch doctor who was rebuked for killing an elderly dementia patient without consent and in a traumatic

‘Shortening lives’ is what happens when we see people as inconvenient. By Kevin Yuill Writing in The Times, Dominic Lawson says there is something obscene about the ‘shortening’ of the lives of more than 450 patients who